{"id":434,"date":"2014-05-19T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2014\/05\/19\/monday-link-salad-11\/"},"modified":"2014-05-19T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T11:00:00","slug":"monday-link-salad-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2014\/05\/19\/monday-link-salad-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Link Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (by the time this is published) I start the next of the MOOCs I&#8217;ve signed up for on Future Learn.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futurelearn.com\/courses\/portus\">This one is about the Roman port Portus (at Rome)<\/a> and I think about archaeology in general as well.  And despite saying I wasn&#8217;t going to overlap courses I&#8217;ve also signed up for one starting on 2 June about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futurelearn.com\/courses\/country-house-literature\">literature of the English country house<\/a> &#8211; the two courses together are supposed to take about as much time per week as the Shakespeare MOOC I just finished, so hopefully that should be OK. I can always abandon one if not \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>J found a phone app that&#8217;s just a little like magic &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.questvisual.wordlens.demo\">Word Lens Translator<\/a> translates 6 different languages to &#038; from English on the fly, using the phone camera.  So you hold your phone up to a menu or a sign and see an English translation.  All languages are free at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>TV I&#8217;m recording this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b01b3fpw\">The Crusades<\/a> &#8211; 3 part series about the Crusades.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b044md9y\">How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears<\/a> &#8211; three part series about the wilderness of America and how it shaped the Wild West story.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b00n8vtk\">Tropic of Cancer<\/a> &#8211; 6 part series of Simon Reeve travelling around the world along the Tropic of Cancer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (by the time this is published) I start the next of the MOOCs I&#8217;ve signed up for on Future Learn. This one is about the Roman port Portus (at Rome) and I think about archaeology in general as well. And despite saying I wasn&#8217;t going to overlap courses I&#8217;ve also signed up for one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2014\/05\/19\/monday-link-salad-11\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monday Link Salad&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[662],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}